Writing for Replay: Supporting the Authoring of Kaleidoscopic Interactive Narratives

Mitchell, Alex

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-05214-9_9

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“…Background 20 years ago, the authors of Card Shark (Bernstein, Millard, and Weal 2002) called for tighter loops between authoring and playtesting in sculptural hypertext. Our playtesting tool supports narrative designers' existing authoring strategies for IDN, which allow them to skillfully reason about player retellings, replay stories (Mitchell (2022)), and other forms of play in and around the story volume (Karth, Junius, and Kreminski (2022)). Grinblat describes the story volume of a given IDN as constructed in the player's mind through 'reparative play' in the course of one or more playthroughs Grinblat, Manning, and Kreminski (2021).…”

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DendryScope: Narrative Designer Support via Symbolic Analysis

Otto,

Chen,

Smith

2023

AIIDE

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Quality-based narratives (QBN) are hypertexts with extensive implicit linked structure. The observation of one passage can have non-obvious long-range implications for the reachability of other passages, which poses an authoring challenge. To help narrative designers address this issue, we produced an interface which visually summarizes all possible playtraces. Our interface leverages answer set programming to produce a query language over possible playtraces, allowing narrative designers to drill down to interesting scenarios. We introduce this interface through the DendryScope tool, which accepts most QBNs written in the Dendry language. We evaluated DendryScope by interviewing four narrative designers as they used the tool to explore Bee, a notable QBN written by Emily Short.

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